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Spatial Cognition: Reasoning, Action, Interaction

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The Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition pursues interdisciplinary research on a broad range of topics related to the representation and processing mechanisms for intelligent spatial behavior in technical and in natural systems. This contribution gives an overview of the field of research worked on in the SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition and presents three representative examples that illustrate the activities in the three research areas Reasoning, Action, and Interaction.

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We gratefully acknowledge the funding of the SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition by the German Research Foundation (DFG), and we thank our project collaborators for their contributions.

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  1. SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    C. Freksa, H. Schultheis, K. Schill, T. Tenbrink & T. Barkowsky

  2. Center for Cognitive Science, Universität Freiburg, Friedrichstr. 50, 79098, Freiburg, Germany

    C. Hölscher

  3. Institut für Informatik, Universität Freiburg, Georges-Köhler-Allee, Geb. 052, 79110, Freiburg, Germany

    B. Nebel

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Freksa, C., Schultheis, H., Schill, K. et al. Spatial Cognition: Reasoning, Action, Interaction. Künstl Intell 24, 329–334 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-010-0055-x

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